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Comment · 9 years ago
Just never use Google for building applications.

They have invested heavily over the lifetime of the company in avoiding providing support. That reputation can never be revived.

Google does not have direct customer support in its DNA, it has the opposite, whatever that is.

They have not demonstrated relentless commitment to being available to resolve issues, and nothing matters more than this if you've bet your company on their platform.

If something goes really wrong. Amazon has your back and you'll find someone who'll listen who has the power to resolve it. Google, you're stuffed. If you've built you're business around that thing that went wrong, well time for regret.

Comment · 9 years ago
This needs to be flooded with legit sounding cases to dilute it out of existence.
Comment · 9 years ago
Stripe has dropped its key advantage.

It started out with outstanding software support for the most popular platforms but now it doesn't.

Develop an application in ReactJs? Stripe hand wave: ahh go build your own solution or use some third party thing somewhere over there in "the community, sure you can trust it".....whatever, we're busy, and ReactJs, hmmm haven't heard of that.

Comment · 9 years ago
My understanding is that overuse is one of the primary reasons health spending is so high in most countries.

No data to back it up, might be wrong.

I can tell you I absolutely loathe pouring money into health insurers to prop up an overused and wasteful system. I'd much rather something like this personal account idea.

Comment · 9 years ago
The key idea I see here is that instead of dumping money into insurers, you have your own government mandated "health savings account".

People would be far less likely to overuse health services if they felt they were paying personally.

That's a powerful idea.

Comment · 9 years ago
>> we do find ourselves sometimes implementing relational DB functionality at the application level to compensate for Dynamo DB's "flexibility."

Yep, this is A-grade crazy, and exactly my point. I would question if it's "sometimes", or "actually almost all the time, now that we think about it, there's not much that we CAN do with DynamoDB without writing application level database functionality."

Comment · 9 years ago
What a joke.

Surely this has completely destroyed the value of this software.

Hard to imagine any good software written by HP anyway.

Don't they employ lowest cost programmers? Heck the probably designed it using UML or something silly like that, with hundreds of business analysts and vast numbers of stakeholder meetings all working to reach consensus, before getting all those lowest cost programmers to try to write what they think the spec might mean - all truly inspired software is written this way.

Comment · 9 years ago
But damn, the idea of letting people take drugs for nothing more than pleasure really doesn't sit well with a lot of people.
Comment · 9 years ago
But the most important thing in the US is paying less tax, right?

So don't complain when there's no money to pay for services.

Comment · 9 years ago
RDS is serverful not serverless.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Doesn't this shake your certainty about how bad other drugs are?

I mean if this drug was bad enough to go to prison for the last 50 years, but now it's not, what about others?

Comment · 9 years ago
I'll write tests when the product makes money.

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